COLUMNISTS COMMENT
A French sailor named Lou told me, recently, about his frightening encounter with a group of orcas, or killer whales. The majestic marine mammals displayed some troubling behaviour: five of them approached the yacht he was sailing and then rammed the hull, spinning the boat around repeatedly.
The incident lasted 80 minutes and left the small sailing vessel’s rudder split in two. The orcas then appeared to toy with the floating foam that was leaking from the broken rudder, pushing